He seemed more embarrassed than pleased, and before finding a reply, he cast rapidsidelong glances in all directions.
After that day Lilly took good care not to speak of the picture, nor even give it a sidelong glance if she thought Mr. Kellermann might see her.
He grew taciturn, then surly; and Lilly caught a sidelong glance of his fixed on her, which caused her to start in terror, it was so wildly, fiercely reproachful.
Nevertheless he continued to cast sidelong glances that way.
When they reached the spot where the great event had occurred which gave the lie to his present behaviour, she ventured to send him a furtive sidelong glance.
When he came up the steps leading to the porch in front of the house, she slipped behind the curtain, and in a joyous tremour caught the shamed, sidelong glance he sent her.
But Joan's sidelong glance discovered a look of some discomfiture.
But I began to realize that my chance acquaintance was shyer than I had at first supposed, and that I might very well have nothing to show for my long walk, my little speeches, and my sidelong glances.
But, despite the attentions of her parents, the eloquent sermons from my sister on the joys of wedded life, and the sighs and sidelong glances of the young lady herself, I took my leave at the end of six weeks without making a declaration.
One smart, sidelong blow of the wriggling fish upon the log ended its struggles.
This long-legged creature who stood thus with his back to him and eyed him with watchful, sidelong glances was something he did not understand.
He had to go up to Town that morning on Forsyte affairs, and was fully conscious of Gradman's glance sidelong over his spectacles.
Mrs. Bellew gave him a sidelong glance, and a little ironical smile peeped out on her full red lips.
And glancing sidelong at his nephew, he thought: 'Wish I were his age!
Soames took a sidelong look back at him from the doorway.
He ascertained where his father was seated with a glance so sidelong as to commit nobody.
They halted behind Gaunt, touching their forelocks, shuffling a little, and looking sidelong at each other.
Tired of answering them with his sidelong glance: "You think so?
And he took a steady, sidelong squint at his companion.
He gave her a sidelong look, and found she was giving him the same.
He was looking at her sidelong as if he would enter her very soul.
While perusing the customary comforting animadversions on the conduct of those "rascally Radicals" who had just come into power, and the account of a Newmarket meeting, he kept stealing sidelong glances at his daughter.
She advanced reluctantly, and Culligore studied her with a sidelong glance.
While ostensibly absorbed in an advertisement, he cast a sidelong glance at the platform of the car just ahead.
The Phantom fell into step beside him, now and then casting a sidelong glance at his sour and uncommunicative face.
Henrietta drew a deep breath; and with the same sidelong look: "He would be beheaded--in the Tower?
Nor had he gone to watch Mama Joy dimple and frown by turns and give him sidelong glances which made him turn his head quickly away.
Miss Bridger looked at him sidelong and laughed to herself.
His stirrups were too short, so that his knees were drawn up uncomfortably, and Billy, glancing sidelong down at them, wondered how the man could ride like that.
And again he cast a sidelong glance; but just at that moment she did the same, and both dropped their eyes with all quickness, terribly confused, as if they had been caught in a crime.
Olenka looked at him with sidelong glance, glad that he was eating and drinking.
Still the young Italian's eye turned sidelong upward; and it really seemed as if the touch of genuine, though slight and almost playful, emotion communicated a juicier sweetness to the dry, mechanical process of his minstrelsy.
As they proceeded on their strange expedition, she now and then cast a look sidelong at Clifford, and could not but observe that he was possessed and swayed by a powerful excitement.
Things was pretty warm there, too, Cassy," he said, with a sidelong look at his father.
When Shon ended, he said with a sidelong glance: "But what did you think of all that, Shon?
And, moving about restlessly (at that time his morose silent period had set in), he cast sidelong looks at the game; but he said nothing.
When it attacks, the Bubale lowers its head to the ground, and as soon as its antagonist is within reach, tosses its head violently upwards, or swings it with a sidelong upward blow.
The bird certainly does eat molluscs, but the principal part of its diet is composed of fish, which it catches dexterously by a sort of sidelong snatch of its enormous bill.
And even as the decision came to him, came also the knowledge that she had done it, as, with a sidelong sway the boat brought up and drifted into slacker water.
Not a sound to be heard, until suddenly a grey hen roosting in the rafters began to cluck uproariously with much sidelong prancings of a pair of yellow legs, and downward dips of a quaint, irascible, tufted head.
Those two at the door stood bolt upright, with sidelong looks of pious horror at each other-- "Oh, Evie!
Our venerable host, stretching out rapturous arms, caught the fugitive to his bosom, where the little boy lay like a squirrel, watching us with great sidelong eyes.
Instantly at the high windows of mysterious houses veiled heads appeared and sidelong eyes cautiously inspected us.
Seated near the door, one hand in his pocket, the other caressing the arm of his chair, he met our gaze with a sidelongsmile that seemed at once to beg pardon for the intrusion, and to assure us it was made with no unworthy motive.
No, sir," the latter replied, with a bow and a sidelong look at the red-cheeked girl at his side.
She was walking off to look again at that picture which had attracted her attention the time before, but at this word gave me one little sidelong look that was inexpressibly suggestive.
Stacy gave her a quick sidelong glance, and Hippy Wingate, observing the look, knew that war had been declared between Stacy Brown and Emma Dean.
It would be a great flesh-reducer," murmured Emma, giving Chunky a sidelong glance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sidelong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
